“Russian submarines in particular likely have the ability to reach very deep sections of cables and could disrupt their operation,” he noted in an article for Bloomberg.
According to the military man, underwater communications, through which a large number of financial transactions take place every day, are not sufficiently protected.
Stavridis called them a “vulnerable Achilles heel.”
Earlier it was reported that the Russian frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov attacked a “submarine” during exercises in the South China Sea.